As all know, Mozilla stopped providing security updates to Firefox 2 . Even though there is update option enabled, they prefer not to update for latest Firefox 3 version despite using updated browser keeps users for safe and secured browsing.

Mozilla conducted a survey lead by Ken Kovash and Eric Hergenrader for Firefox 2 users whom have update option enabled and choose not to update to Firefox 3.

In May 2009, Mozilla launched final option for Firefox 2 users to migrate to Firefox 3 via a major update . As some Firefox 2 users updated to Firefox 3 , Firefox 2 users count fallen to 8% from 10%. Mozilla also provided feedback option in major update if ff2 users don’t want to upgrade their browser to FF3.

Out of 5000 readers feedback, 25% said they are concerned about browsing history in awesome bar they don’t know how to clear it.

Here below are some reasons not to update to ff3 said by ff2 users.

1.Unable to clear history from Awesome bar: Ff2 users concerned about browsing history shown in awesome bar and they don’t know the option to clear it or disable it. Hence some downgraded to Firefox 2 from Firefox 3.